page_title: Rechthalten
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Rechthalten / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Umzug beim Westschweizer Jodlerfest 2006 in Rechthalten FR, Schweiz
context_page_description: Rechthalten is a municipality in the district of Sense, in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It was known in French as Dirlaret, but this name is no longer used. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg.
context_section_description: Rechthalten has a population (as of December 2018) of 1,103.  As of 2008, 2.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 7.1%.  Migration accounted for 4%, while births and deaths accounted for 4.7%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (978 or 95.4%) as their first language, French is the second most common (39 or 3.8%) and Portuguese is the third (3 or 0.3%).  There is 1 person who speaks Italian.
  As of 2008, the population was 48.9% male and 51.1% female.  The population was made up of 516 Swiss men (47.7% of the population) and 13 (1.2%) non-Swiss men.  There were 546 Swiss women (50.5%) and 7 (0.6%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 501 or about 48.9% were born in Rechthalten and lived there in 2000.  There were 342 or 33.4% who were born in the same canton, while 123 or 12.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 22 or 2.1% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2000, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 22.7% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 63.7% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.6%.
  As of 2000, there were 447 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 486 married individuals, 59 widows or widowers and 33 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 394 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household.  There were 92 households that consist of only one person and 33 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 382 apartments (93.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 17 apartments (4.2%) were seasonally occupied and 10 apartments (2.4%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 3.7 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 0.43%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Rechthalten Yodel fest
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